- Target:
- Food and Drug Administration
- Region:
- United States of America
- Website:
- www.surgeongeneral.gov
According to the Surgeon General, cigarettes are still the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. If there is no immediate and significant change in cutting smoking rates 1 out of every 13 children alive today will die early from smoking; that's 5.6 million people.
88 million Americans are still regularly exposed to secondhand smoke and die or contract diseases because of it. Between 1964 (when the first Surgeon General's report was presented) and 2014 over 20 million Americans have died because of smoking. 2.5 million non-smokers and more than 100,000 babies have died because of secondhand smoke.
Let's protect the innocent, the people who have made the choice to keep cigarettes out of their lives, and the future of our children.
Let's reduce all of these numbers down to zero. Let's ban cigarettes in the United States.
We, the undersigned, call to the Food and Drug Administration to ban the manufacturing and use of all tobacco cigarettes and to ticket and drastically increase fines on any person found smoking. According to the Surgeon General, cigarettes are still the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. If there is no immediate and significant change in cutting smoking rates 1 out of every 13 children alive today will die early from smoking.
The status quo of current bans is helpful, but is simply not enough in protecting non-smokers or preventing today's children from becoming smokers. Smokers continue to smoke in non-smoking areas and secondhand smoke can still be taken in in most public areas. On top of saving lives, banning cigarettes will lead to less pollution in the air and less littering on the ground.
The undersigned certifies, that, to the best knowledge and belief of the undersigned, this petition includes all information and views on which the petition relies, and that it includes representative data and information known to the petition which are unfavorable to the petition.
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The Make Cigarettes Illegal in the United States of America petition to Food and Drug Administration was written by Nancy Barrios and is in the category Health at GoPetition.